Head of Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data Service Line at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 2, 2020
The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients.
AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis.
It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services.
We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse.
The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them.
The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients.
The solution has many features that are applicable to events such as audits.